Comments on: Airline industry working together to reduce carbon emissions http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/11/14/airline-industry-working-together-to-reduce-carbon-emissions/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Murray Harrold http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/11/14/airline-industry-working-together-to-reduce-carbon-emissions/#comment-130862 Murray Harrold Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:16:29 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=2322#comment-130862 This is a very interesting, I am wondering how the tax per flight will work and am keen to see the proposals. We pay this GB tax on all our ticket at present and varies from £10 to about £40 depending on where we are going and if in cattle or up front with the driver. Given how many flights there are from LHR alone, it is not difficult to work out that it is a tidy sum. Now, "envoirnmentally friendly" and "aeroplane" go together like "military" and "intelligence", as the old addage goes. The only way you get get an envoirenmentally friendly aeroplane is to park it on the ground, turn the engines off and take the train. I am not too sure how you can spend the money "on the envoirenment" (I can't even spell it!!)how are you going to do this? Plant a squirrel every time one takes off? These stealth taxes, thinly veiled as "planet saving" are really a joke and really do hack me off. I saw the local bus, the same one that has plied the route for the last heavens nows how many years, suddenly being plastered with signs saying it is now "green" EH????? It still chucks out diesel smoke - how can it suddenly be "green"? Likewise all these lorries that are suddenly painted green and carry nice, friendly, comforting messages saying they are green.... Look, no-one is getting fooled by this. Green means less flights, more electric trains. Green does not mean driving a Honda Prius when the factory that makes the batteries lays waste half of a Canadian state, it does mean recylcing slavishly when it takes more out the planet to process the stuff - and all the time our taxes go up on this baloney. Sorry, going off topic. So, new runay, case in point. The Government can talk the green talk, let's see if they can walk the green walk...... This is a very interesting, I am wondering how the tax per flight will work and am keen to see the proposals. We pay this GB tax on all our ticket at present and varies from £10 to about £40 depending on where we are going and if in cattle or up front with the driver. Given how many flights there are from LHR alone, it is not difficult to work out that it is a tidy sum. Now, “envoirnmentally friendly” and “aeroplane” go together like “military” and “intelligence”, as the old addage goes. The only way you get get an envoirenmentally friendly aeroplane is to park it on the ground, turn the engines off and take the train. I am not too sure how you can spend the money “on the envoirenment” (I can’t even spell it!!)how are you going to do this? Plant a squirrel every time one takes off? These stealth taxes, thinly veiled as “planet saving” are really a joke and really do hack me off. I saw the local bus, the same one that has plied the route for the last heavens nows how many years, suddenly being plastered with signs saying it is now “green” EH????? It still chucks out diesel smoke – how can it suddenly be “green”? Likewise all these lorries that are suddenly painted green and carry nice, friendly, comforting messages saying they are green…. Look, no-one is getting fooled by this. Green means less flights, more electric trains. Green does not mean driving a Honda Prius when the factory that makes the batteries lays waste half of a Canadian state, it does mean recylcing slavishly when it takes more out the planet to process the stuff – and all the time our taxes go up on this baloney. Sorry, going off topic. So, new runay, case in point. The Government can talk the green talk, let’s see if they can walk the green walk……

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]]> By: Kelly http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/11/14/airline-industry-working-together-to-reduce-carbon-emissions/#comment-130671 Kelly Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:45:45 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=2322#comment-130671 I do hope so because I feel a smack of guilt everytime I book a flight for a short break. I just don't have the time to do the more responsible thing after I fly and 'stay longer'. I wish :) Virgin Galatic may be developing aviation in a more eco-frienldy direction. The minute the industry realises that there's money to be made in this area, I'm sure we'll see them following suit. Virgin Galatic's 'Eve' plane is 'Powered by four Pratt and Whitney PW308A engine - powerful, economic and efficient - WK2 is a mold breaker in carbon efficiency' I can't wait for it to go mainstream ... hopefully within ten yrs There more if you're interested here http://sandwagon.blogspot.com/search?q=virgin&submit=Go I do hope so because I feel a smack of guilt everytime I book a flight for a short break. I just don’t have the time to do the more responsible thing after I fly and ‘stay longer’. I wish :)

Virgin Galatic may be developing aviation in a more eco-frienldy direction. The minute the industry realises that there’s money to be made in this area, I’m sure we’ll see them following suit.

Virgin Galatic’s ‘Eve’ plane is ‘Powered by four Pratt and Whitney PW308A engine – powerful, economic and efficient – WK2 is a mold breaker in carbon efficiency’

I can’t wait for it to go mainstream … hopefully within ten yrs

There more if you’re interested here http://sandwagon.blogspot.com/search?q=virgin&submit=Go

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